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奥斯卡
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Thank you for dropping by on your way to the party. As the 29th President of the Academy, I welcome you all to our 69th Annual Award. There are over 6000 of us in the Academy who share at least one wonderful and fulfilling thing with over a billion of you out there: We love movies. We don't always love the same movie, nor do we always agree which are art and which are artless. But that's what adds spice to our Awards in the form of suspense, spirited discussion and emotional clashes. Still, going to the movies brings us together to share our humanity. In what sometimes feels like an ear of isolation, we find ourselves too often alone with our technology, sitting alone to read our computer screens, or listening to radio and watching television alone. Fortunately we still have our houses of worship, ballgames and movies to remind us that we are related by humanity, not machinery. So we in our Academy propose an agreement with you: you keep going to the movies, and we'll keep making them.
Ladies and Gentlemen, last year's best actor: Nicolas Cage:
Oscar Wield once pointed out that while we looked to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we asked the actress to give realism to romance. The immensely talented women nominated tonight for Best Actress do just that and more. The nominees for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role are: Brenda Blethyn in Secrets and Lies, Diane Keaton in Marbin's Room, Frances McDormand in Fargo, Christin Scott Thomas in The English Patient, Emily Watson in Breaking The Waves. The Oscar goes to, the Oscar goes to Frances McDormand in Fargo.
It is impossible to maintain one's composure in this situation. What am I doing here? Especially considering the extraordinary group of women with whom I was nominated. We five women were fortunate to have the choice, not just the opportunity, but the choice to play such rich, complex femal characters. And I congratulate producers like Walking Teddler in Polygram for allowing directors to let, allowing directors to make autonomous casting decisions based on qualifications, and not just market value. And I encourage, I
encourage writers and directors to keep these really interesting female roles coming while you edit, even if you throw a few for men as well My family, friends and colleagues here tonight and all around the world, they know exactly who they are, you know who you are, and I hope you already know how much your support and your care means to me. I'm gonna name three: the co-writer director and producer of Fargo, Mr.Etha Coen who helped make an actor of me, his brother Mr.Joel Coen who made a woman of me, and our moon and our son, Mr.Pedrow McDormand Coen who's made a real mother of me. Thank you for acknowledging out work.
The parts the nominees for the Best actor in a leading Role played are all basically challenged in some way. I think there are time challenges, so why don't we just cut to the chase here and let us just give this lucky guy ad extra eleven seconds. Thus I'll go ahead, OK? The nominees for the Best Actor in a Leading Role are: Tom Cruise in Jerry McGuire, Ralph Fiennes in the English Patient, Woody Harrelson in the People Versus Larry Flint, Geoffrey Rush in Shine, Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade. And the Oscar goes to Geoffrey Rush in Shine.
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our great actor Mr. Al Paccino: Ah,(thank you) well, we've come to the part of the show now that;s you've all been waiting for. It's the half -way mark. I thought and tried it. Anyway, ah, the nominees for Best Picture are:
The English Patient. Saul Zaentz producer, Fargo, Ethan Coen producer, Jerry McGuire, Jame Alburques, Lawrence Mark Brichencequet and Camenren Crow producers, Secrets and Lies, Simon Chelion Williams producer, Shine, Jame Scott producer. And the Oscar goes to The English Patient, Saul Zaentz.
Well, it's a pretty great night. Stay tuned for "Good Morning, America." I'm really glad to have been here this year. Thank you and good night, everybody.
克林顿
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Ladies and Gentlemen,the president of the United States of America, William Jefferson Cliton.
My fellow citizens, at this last presidential inauguration of the 20st century, let us lift our eyes toward the challenges that await us in the next century. It is our great, good fortune. The time and chance have put us not only at the edge of a new century and a new millennium, but on the edge of a bright new prospect in human affairs, a moment that will define our course and our character for decades to come. We must keep our old democracy forever young. Guided by the ancient vision of a promised land, let our sights upon the land of new promise The promise of America was born in the 18th century, out of the bold conviction that we are all created equal. It was extended and preserved in the 19th century when our nation spread across the continent, saved the Union and abolished the awful scurge of slavery. Then, in turmoil and tryout , that promise exploded over the world stage to make this the American century. And what a century it has been. America became the world's mightiest industrial power, saved the world from tyranny in two world wars and a long Cold War, and time and again, reached out across the globe to millions who like us long for the blessings of liberty. Along the way, Americans produced the great middle class and security in old age, built unrival centers of learning and opened public schools to all, split the atom and explored the heavens invented the computer nad the microchip, and deepened the world's frame of justice by making a revolution in Civil Rights for AfricanAmericans and all minorities and extending the circle of citizenship, opportunity and dignity to women. Now for the third time, a new century is upon us and another time to choose. We began the 19th century with a choice to spread our nation from coast to coast. We began the 20th century with a choice to harness the Industrial Revolution to our values of free enterprise, conservation and human decency. Those choices made all the difference.
At the dawn of 21st century, a free people must now choose to shape the forces of the infiormation age and the global society to unleash the limitless potential of all our people and , yes , to form a more perfect union.
When last we gathered, out march to this new future seemed less certain than it does today. We vowed then to set a clear course to renew our nation. In these four years, we have been touched by tragedy, exhilarated by challenge, strengthened by achievement.
America stands alone as the world's indispensable nation. Once again our economy is the strongest on earth, one agaion we are building stronger families, thriving communities, better education opportunities, a cleaner environment. Problems that once seemed destined to deepen now've bent to our efforts. Our streets are safer, and record numbers of our fellow citizens have moved from welfare to work. And once again we have resolved for our time a great debate over the role of government. Today we can declare government is not the problem, and government is not the solution. We, the American people, we are the solution.
Our founders understood that well and gave us a democracy, strong enough to endure for centuries, flexible enough to face our common challenges and advance our common dreams in each new day. As times change, so government must change. We need a new government for a new century, humble enough not to try to solve all our problems for us, but strong enough to give us the tools to solve our problems for ourselves, a government that is smaller, lives within its means and does more with less, yet where it can stand up for our values and interests around the world and where it can give Americans the power to make a real difference in their everyday lives, government should do more, not less. The preeminent mission of our new government is to give all Americans an opportunity, not a guarantee, but a real opportunity to build better bives.
Beyond that, my fellow citizens, the future is up to us. Our founders taught us that the preservation of our liberty and our union depends upon responsible citizenship. And we need a new sense of responsibility for a new century. There is work to do, work that government alone can not do, teaching children to read, hiring people of wealthier roles, coming out from behind locked doors and shuttered windows, to help reclaim our streets from drugs and gangs and crime, taking time out of our own lives to serve others. Each and everyone of us, in our won way, must assume personal responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families, but for our neighbors and our nation.
Our greatest responsibility is to embrace a new spirit of community for a new century. For any one of us to succeed, we must succeed as one America. The challenge of our past remains the challenge of our future. Will we be one nation, one people with one common destiny or not? Will we all come together or come apart? The divide of racej has been the America's constant curse, and each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt clogged in the pretense of religious or political convictions are no different. These forces have nearly destroyed our nation in the past. They plague us still. They fill the fanaticism of terror and they torment the lives of millions in fractured nations all around the world. These obsessions crippled both those who hate and, of course, those who are hated, robbing both of what they might become. We can not, we will not succumb to the dark impulses that lurk in the far regions of the soul everywhere. We shall overcome them. And we shall replace them with the generous spirit of a people who feel at home with one another. Our rich texture of racial, religious and political diversity will be a godsend in the 21st century. Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together. As this new ear approches, we can already see its broad outlines. Ten years ago, the Internet was the mystical province of physicists. Today, it is a commonplace encyclopedia for millions of school children. Scientists now are decoding the blue print of human life. Cures for our most feared illnesses seem close at hand. The world is no longer divided into two hostile camps, instead, now we are building bonds with nations that once were our adversaries. Growing connections of commerce and culture give us a chance to lift the fortunes and spirits of people the world over. And for the very first time in all of history, more people on this planet live under democracy than dictatorship.
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Editorial writers gave President Bill Clinton's second Inqugural Speech average ardes for both presentation and content.
The New York Times, U.S. Inaugural Addresses often evoke a sense of triumph in a vision of battles to come. For lovers of such sailing rhetoric, president Cliton's was distinctly earth - bound.
Toronto star, Canada: Chastened by setbacks and scandals - and saddled by voters wit their Republican controlled Congress - the President retreated into lofty sentiments and vague generalities.
The Guardian, Britain: Mr. Clinton tried too hard for his memorable line. It was an uninspired inspirationalism. A Johnny Appleseed view of human progress and ultimately a disappointing speech.
Hong Kong Standard: Do inaugural addresses provide a clear foretaste of what the next four years will hold? Of course not. No president has ever lived up to these promises.
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Some money managers are looking at emerging markets like Hong Kong, Russia and India for winners. So far this year, 60 new emerging markets funds have been launched making the sector the fastest growing area for fund companies. But emerging markets funds have lagged the tolled pays of the US market, and that's just one of the many reasons the man considered to be the guru of emerging markets believes they belong in most portfolios. Mark Mobius, president of Templeton Emerging Markets Funds is normally speeding around the globe looking for bargain stocks. But he stopped in New York recently to publicize the latest edition of his book appropriately titled Mobius on the Emerging Markets. And he says the market he is most excited about right now is Hong Kong. While considering the free market British colony is about to be turned over to communist China, I asked him why he is so optimistic.
I realize that it is an opportunity there, ah, that is a , probably opportunity of a life time. Because if things go well, the market could move up substantially from where it is now. I also realize there is a risk, and we've signed about 25% risk of something going wrong with this transition. But the upside is very very good. And you have a situation where Hong Kong is a very efficient business - like environment, is the best place to be if you want to invest in China. To just give you one example, the largest infrastructure project in the world - the new airport in Hong Kong, and the fastest growing major economy in the world right at your door step.
Mark, how do investors choose which emerging market funds to buy? There are so many funds out there.
For the individual investor new to emerging markets, he or she is best to be in the global emerging markets funds where there are many companies, many countries, and diversification is very good. Because I may love Hong Kong but the market could change and you'd better offer a diversified portfolio because even if Hong Kong gets hit, you are in man other markets.
You have a Russia fund. What's your rush now investing in that country?
I was in Russian two weeks ago and an American businessman got shot. So I mean, sometimes you do find it difficult to justify being there. But it's a great country and has a great future in my view.
Should investors be scared of emerging markets, what should they expect?
Usually what I'd like to tell people is look at the fund you are thinking about investing in, and look at the last five years and see how far it's gone down in its worst periods. And if you are not willing to accept that kind of decline, don't invest. And in these emerging markets, you can look at as much as a 30% decline in one year.
So you've got to be ready for that kind of volatility.
Where are you investing personally?
In our funds? I've, I focus on the emerging market funds and also all the specialized funds. The most risky funds are the ones I like.
Are you100% investing in the emerging markets?
Yes. (As) a matter of fact, I am. Maybe I shouldn't say this on the air because that's something that we don't recommend people to do. You know, we recommend people to, to be in global funds, not only in the emerging markets funds.
But why, Why are you 100% invested in the emerging markets?
Because I think that there the growths will be the greatest. And I'd like to be with the growths.
I just want to point out that Mobius reiterated that he can afford to put money at risk. But for people who can't, he recommends avoiding emerging markets entirely.
里奇
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He was called the maestro of melo. He wroth the songs that made us feel so good. He even won an Oscar for this one.
Here I am bolding the Oscar. I have got the Golden Globe. This is 1986. You've decided to take a year off. Ten years later we are sitting here. Thank you very much. What happened?
To lionel Richie, the pop star at the top of this game, a short break turned into a lost decade filled with ersonal trogedies. We visited hime at his home high in the Hollywood Hills where he began story as he dropped out with a failing health of his father he so adored.
There is nothing harder than losing a parent. - Especially when you know them as well as I know my father. Lionel Richie Senior had been the tough retired military dad.
And then he threw a curve ball and told me, "Son, now you take care of me now, you hear?". He was the best in the worst times. And had a great, full life.
How did the death itself affect you?
Fortunately he didn't die suddenly. Ah, in fact, when I was growing up, ah, I used to always put my hand next to my father's hand to see if I was growing yet. - Oh.
And of course, he would always, his hand would always be larger.
Towards the end, Richie would have his father's hand clasping his cast in bronze.
And this is his hand? - That's his hand on the right and that's my hand on the left. It is the most amazing thing that some days when I just want to come I and I want to just be close. I'll come to hold his hand his hand, just can't go, you know. Dad, what should I do now?
Richie said for those three years he kept writing songs. He just wouldn't leave his father to record them.
But you know that industry was saying, "Lionel was lost." - I know. I know. But if someone said, you know, spending time with your father or your new album? There's just no contest.
Are you afraid of marriage? - I am not afraid, terrified is the word now. - Did your divorce cost you a lot of money?
Oh, yes it did. But at the same time, ah, I mean I make it. - But you're also notoriously frugal. - Well, for those friends of mine who said to me, Lionel has very dime he every earned. I can now tell them, now I don't.
Lionel had been a real rich guy. - Oh, did you say it? - I did. - OK. - I guess one can say, you know that all of us have traumas in our lives and we are all traumatized by these incidences we don't expect, like death of parents and divorces. But we don't all stop our careers.
Well, in most cases, most of us can't stop the careers, as I told one guy, I could afford my misery. You know I am finding out that right now I'm fourteen years old. I have got Nicol.
Nicol, his adopted daughter from his first marriage, healing his musical hand some melodies his latest release - Louder than Words .
Were you afraid you couldn't come back?
No. I wasn't afraid to come back. The challenge was that - will the music be accepted? And in this one new album with Climbing I had a chance to bury it if you will You know, write down my thoughts about this period of my life and put it away.
So what is Lionel Richie's destiny? - I think my job is to be the messenger of a very simple corny word - love. I think I was supposed to touch hearts.
芝加哥
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Expensive land and expensive labor drove many manufacturers out of the big cities during the 1970's and 80's, taking jobs and prosperity with them. But now business leaders, politicians and urban planners across the country are doing what it takes to bring industry back and keep it there. And as Betsy Karetnick reports from Chicago in this week's cover story, it looks like those efforts just might be working.
Chicago's city skyline reflects years of middle - western economic expansion. The city's financial services are thriving. The service sector is growing. The unemployment rate for the metropolitan area near a historic low. But even as a gleaming new sports stadium mirrors that city's good fortune there is one sector of the economy that hasn't kept up - manufacturing.
Jenkins: "Well, in the wake of the, ah, huge restructuring of industry, manufacturing industry in Chicago the late 70's,early 80's, we lost a couple hundred thousand manufacturing jobs."
Including a big chunk of the country's meat and food processing industries, and steel and metal manufacturing jobs. Say, economic renaissance in Chicago. And nobody thinks of the city's manufactures. But now there is a small but growing interest looking to preserve that manufacturing base. One of the results has been the creation of socalled industrial corridors like Goose Island.
In an effort to bring its economic miracle to tis factories, Chicago has created 22 industrial corridors which groups this base of manufactures by location. Cmpanies work in partnership with grass roots level developing groups and the city government to solve problems like transportation routes. Industrial corridors are part of Chicago's and other cities' efforts to revive local economy's heavy dependence on manufacturing jobs.
Bolton:"Manufacturing drives the service sector, the real estate sector, the insurance sector. No matter where those jobs show up, you need a manufacturing base in order to sustain it somewhere."
Sustaining and expanding the manufacturing base is exactly what the city government is trying to do. Not only with industrial corridors but with tax incentives and low - cost loans. City hall is also providing dollars for business family infrastructure. Consider Version, a few years ago the company that builds machinery to manufacture metal components for appliances and cars considered moving to the suburbs. But the city intervened, building roads and raising viaducts to make transportation easier. Version President Richard Metzger says the company grew,adding jobs along the way.
Metzger:"Employment of this company was approximately 400 people in, uh, 19891990, in that time range. Eh, today we are approximately 700 to 725 people."
Metzger says the company's location made it easy to find workers. Urban developers say that inner city work force gains importance as labor markets get even tighter.
Tilson:"There is an available work force, ah, often with, ah, with specialized skills, ah, that can be very attractive to, ah, many different, ah, employers."
Still, a dedication to the inner city can be challenging, as corrugated boxer maker Pride Container found out when he tried to expand.
Sharfstein:"There's not a balance in my opinion of good industrial space to support the total needs of the community."
Without a suitable city location, Pride Container opened a satellite in the suburbs. But there may be a bigger issue than space holding back manufacturing's renassance, and that's the widely touted labor force.
Jenkins:"What company's need,ah, in manufacturing is people who are employable, which means they have to have, ah, you know, work ethics, and you know, show up to work on time, they have to be drug -free and that's a problem. And they need to be trainable."
Even if that human resource challenges met, it's unlikely large scale manufacturing will return to the big city. Still the potential for revival is there.
Sharfstein:"Eh, my father, who since passed away and I started this company, eh, April 4,1968. I love the city, I love what it stand for Eh, and I think that's a, it's an exciting, eh, vibrant opportunist place for people to participate.
That commitment from factory floor to city hall perhaps a blueprint for other cities to follow.
Betsy Karetnick, the Wall Street journal report, Chicago.
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The awesome power of a thundering waterfall, captured up close from a breath taking perspective one could not safely experience first hand. For most film cameras, these pounding falls would be far too hazardous to approach, but a unique cable supported system has been developed that can carry the camera the operator safely through the spray. New camera technologies are revolutionizing the world of motion picture effects photography, creating startling shots that take movie audiences where only birds have gone before, and generating explosive images to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
Coming up, we'll meet the innovators of special effects photography whose cutting edge cameras and supports systems are giving new moves to movies. From a soaring flight over the roof tops of Europe to a charging ride through the Amerian west, it's truly a moving experience. Next, on Movie Magic.
The Magic of Movies allows audiences to share experiences not possible in daily life. Whether the destination is in the heavens or down to earth, every cinematic journey starts with the camera, From the beginning, film makers have pursued ways to make motion pictures move. In 1903, pioneering cinematographer Billy Bitzer filmed some of first moving shots by placing a camera on the back of a milk wagon Early car chases were photographed by attaching cameras to the fronts of automobiles. By 1916, Bitzer had placed a camera on a crane to provice us a sweeping high angle gerspective of a backlock Babylon for D.W.Griffith's "Intolerance".
Over the years cameras have rolled down tracks,taken to the air on planes, and been attached to basically anything that gave movement to a shot. On today's sound stages,cameras are often placed on cranes atop mobile platforms called dollies. State of the art camera cars such as "the shot maker" incorporate a crane arm atop a fast charging vehicle providing smooth shots for even the fastest action sequence. But locations beyond the reach of traditional camera platforms require even more innovative methods. One system filling this gap is called "the cable cam", a movable camera platform that can be suspended above almost any terrain. Creator Jim Rodnunsky saw a need for this device when earliner in his career, he attempted to film skiers on extremely difficult slopes. "The cable cam is essentially a dolly suspended by cables in the air instead of, say, being mounted on a truck or on the track on the track on the ground, we can fly down rivers, we can fly over waterfalls, um, down mountainsides, uh, through stadiums, in places where you couldn't drive a camera car. Maybe a helicopter wouldn't be able to get that low, or get that closer to people, or animals, that kind of thing."
The camera carriage rides on metal track wheels that grip on to a constantly moving cable. The cable itself runs in an endless loop powered by a hydraulic engine. While the word "cable" normally suggests "steel", the cablecam uses ropes made of synthetic fiber. "This is what's basicall the life blood of everybody on the system. I guess maybe one of the reasons why you call it a cable is when you pull about ten,twelve thousand pounds of tension on this, it feels like steel when you go up weighs only 500 pounds, a comparable steel cable would weigh at least ten times that, and be far too difficult to move and install.
The cable cam system can cover distance of up to half a mile, quickly accelerating to a maximum speed of 60 miles per hour. The camera can be operated either romotely or by a cinematographer riding on the carriage.
The system has kept up with many speeding vehicles from motorbikes to kayaks. But here at legendary race track Churchill Downs, the challenge is to follow the ponies for television coverage of the world's most famous system as unobtrusive as possible, the camera is operated remoteley by radio control. The cable cam provides the derby broadcast with a never before seen perspective on this most photographed of races. Given its far ranging capabilities, Hollywood effects artists were quick to seize up on this revolutionary technology. For the Canadian television adventure series Neon Rider, a cable cam was used to capture a galloping herd of wild horses. In the past, this king of shot was nearly impossible. The traditional camera trucks or helicopters used for moving shots would scare the horses, denying film makers such close proximity. "We were just slightly above the horses'field of view and right beside the horses, and they just came literally right up and bumped into the dolly, and we were going downhill. It was about 1,400 foot shot."
For the magical fantasy film "Three Wishes", director Martha Coolighe turned to the cable cam for a crucial effects sequence. In the story's climactic moment, a young boy soars above the carnival. A helicopter was used to film high angle aerial shots. But it was too dangerous to bring the chopper close to the carnival rides for shots representing the young boy's point of view. For these, Coolidge looked to the cable cam. "What was great about the cable cam is that it can go very fast and change its perspective. It has a real incredible feeling (of) speed and flying at a lower attitude than a helicopter can be. "Footage of the young boy flying was photographed against a green screen, a temporary background often used in filming effect shots. The images from the cable cam and green screen shots are combined in post production along with the finishing touch of computer generated fireworks.l The entire sequence is overseen by Academy Award winning visual effects supervisor Phil Tippete.
In the completed scene, the boy takes to the air with the greatest of ease, and illusion generated by a battery of effects and a highly ingenious camera system.
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